Belfast City Council has implemented a major upgrade of its Local Area Network (LAN). The largest local government organisation in Northern Ireland, which has 1,000 users across 30 sites, commissioned 3Com and Digital Wiring to undertake the upgrade in a deal worth STG£125,000 (€186,095)
According to Terry McNeill, consultant with Information Services Belfast, the new infrastructure will speed traffic up six to eight times faster than the previous network and thereby increasing productivity and performance. ‘The new network will assist in resolving bandwidth issues and eliminate local network traffic bottlenecks. It will be far easier to access whatever data is required, whenever it’s needed, right across the network.’
The implementation is based on 3Com XRN(tm) “pay-as-you-grow” technology used in conjunction with 3Com 4924 and 4400 switches. The new system is giving higher link speeds as well as more resilience so that if one of Belfast City Council’s floors goes down the network still stays up and running,’ said 3Com’s Irish country manager, Ray O’Connor. ‘The addition of switching capabilities in the new infrastructure means that data traffic can be effectively filtered and transmitted on a one-to-many basis without the network being flooded.’
David Camlin, technical director, Digital Wiring said that Belfast City Council’s new network is well-positioned to take advantage of further technologies such as VoIP. ‘With the ever-growing reliance on systems that maintain valuation information we decided to implement a network infrastructure that would be reliable, resilient, manageable and capable of providing the scalability to deliver multimedia applications and storage area network convergence in the future.’
23/06/04
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